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Special JRE 6u21-b08 Build Now Available for EBS Customers

The painful saga of our recent JRE releases' issues with the Oracle E-Business Suite is almost over. It is expected that a future release of JRE 1.6 will contain a mainline fix for the "Mismanaged Session Cookie" issues that exist with JRE 1.6.0_18 to 1.6.0_21 build 6 (6u21-b06), inclusive.

There is an interim workaround until that new release is available. JRE 1.6.0_21 build 8 (6u21-b08) is now available and certified for Oracle E-Business Suite 11i and R12. This Build of the native plug-in fixes the 'Mismanaged Session Cookie' issue for the JRE 6u21 stream, which could cause a failure of the following functionalities on certain desktop/browser combinations, and particularly prevalent for IE6 and IE7 users:

'File -> Export' functionality

Opening attachments in forms

Opening an HTML form to a new window from forms.

Opening an Applet in a new window from forms

Trying to login again after forms session timeout fails

Special release vehicle for this JRE build

This version of the plug-in is only available through patch 10021403 and is not available as a download through the usual channels or through the Java automatic update facility. The standard version of the plug-in remains at JRE 1.6.0_21 build 6 (6u21-b06). This fix will not be available through the usual channels until a future release of JRE 1.6.

This release also fixes the long standing z-ordering issue (HTML Window
opens behind Forms Window) for Windows XP users running Internet
Explorer. A permanent fix is not yet available for Firefox users or
Windows Vista or Windows 7 users, therefore please continue to use one
of the workaround options if required.

Summary of options for
EBS sysadmins

At this stage, your
options are to:

Remain on JRE 1.6.0_17; wait for the
upcoming JRE release that includes this fix

Deploy any
standard JRE release later than
1.6.0_17, with the understanding that some of your users may encounter
issues related to "Mismanaged session cookies"

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we've also got this issue in our Forms-based product, starting with JRE 1.6.0_18. We've implemented a workaround in our code: Instead of using AppletContext.showDocument() we now use the Java-to-Javascript bridge (JSObject.getWindow) and let the browser evaluate window.open(, 'blank'). This opens the new window in the same browser process unlike the changed showDocument implementation.

Thank you for letting me know about this. I'm very sorry to hear that this still appears to be an issue for you. This general class of issues has multiple variants, some of which have been very difficult to reproduce because of machine-specific baseline conditions.

I am escalating this to our Sun JRE team. Please monitor your SR for updates; we'll work directly with the Support Engineer assigned to your SR.

That shouldn't happen. Patch 10021403 should deliver 6u21-b08. If you're still experiencing this issue, please log a formal Service Request via My Oracle Support (formerly Metalink) to get one of our specialists engaged.

Please feel free to forward your Service Request number to me if it gets stuck in the support process for some reason.